Anthropic's hidden internal model sparks talk of a permanent intelligence underclass
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-08-15
X user @imjustnewatai floats an unverified claim: Anthropic has an internal model codenamed "Model 2" that reportedly beats "Mythos 5" on many internal tasks, is used only internally, and has no release plans — the public may never get to use it.
The author argues frontier labs will always stay a generation ahead of everyone else: by the time users get the model they've been waiting for, Anthropic could already be using something better to build what comes next. He even imagines a lab refusing to release a smarter model because it's "too intelligent," calling this the beginning of a permanent intelligence underclass, with OpenAI and friends as the only hope (post truncated).
Related event: Anthropic's Internal Model 2 Capabilities Revealed(21 posts)→
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